Topic: Crash on Demand
started by: jim
Posted by solid on Feb. 15 2001,00:04
And I suppose any program that decides to hate you would trigger that key?
Posted by jim on Feb. 15 2001,05:40
Win2000 includes a bug... uuhhh I mean feature that lets you crash the system by holding down the right Ctrl key and pressing the Scroll Lock key twice. To enable this feature (*bug*), look below: - Start regedit from the 'run' box
- Scroll to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\ Parameters.
- From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD.
- Enter a name of CrashOnCtrlScroll, then press Enter.
- Double-click the new value, and set it to any nonzero value (e.g., 1). Click OK.
- Close regedit.
- Restart your system.
Once you hit the keys above the system will crash and display an error of MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH (0xE2).
* I personally haven't tested this, so as always do this AT YOUR OWN RISK, I don't think it would harm your system (but I could be wrong). Be careful! 
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jim
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